Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-03-05
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.
Ambition is good thing until it rur
away with a man.

Ambition is good thing until it runs
away with man.
Money has no character of its own.
It takes its character from the user.
It is yet too early in the season to dos
nate your gum sho es to the heather.
A Justice of the Peace at Ionia, Mich,
has begun a suit against man for a
wedding fee.
In China coffin is considered most
acceptable present, and is frequently
given by children to their parents.
In New York some patriotic persons,
grateful for Bartholdi's gift, propose to
present statute of Washington to
France.
A dog case in Boone county, Iowa, is
now on its sixth trial, having had two
before Justice and three before the
District Court. The dog is dead.
The 18th of May is the ate irreyoca-
bly, fixed for the sale of the French
jewels, They will be on view for a
month before the auction, in the Pavil-
lion de Flore.
Casey county, Kentucky, is said to be
overrun by rats. A sort of cat cholera
has killed off all the cats, and the rats
are having everything their own way.
Cats are away up above par there.
The catch of shad in the Hudson for
The season of 1886 was / 300, $40.
Russia and Bulgaria are represented
by one student each in the post graduate
department established this year at the
New York University.
At the age of 70, Mr.. Ben iamin II.
Field is connected in official positions
with no less than "a benevolent lnstitu,
tions of different kinds, these associa,
tons of his in some instances dating to
period before the war.
1t is reported that Eastern capitalists
have formed corporation in Canada for
the purpose of working 10 farms, each
containing 10000 acres, in the North
western Territories, along the line of
the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Elizabeth Singleton, colored woman
OF st. Louis, went to the morgue to
identify the dead body of her stepsisteI'
While there she looked arnnnd, and ex,
claimed as she saw another dead body:
"Why, der is old Cap, who used to be
my husband" She was right.
Eighteen months ago William Chap,
man, of New London, was in his house
when it was struck by lightning, and was
very severely shocked. Ever since he
has been able to predict coming thun>
der storm with great certainty from Ger,
tain pains that he feels in his heel some
hours before the storm.
A citizen WI O knows Wall street in
forms us that women are very popular as
clerks and copyists in that neighbor-
hood, because their employers are not
afraid of their divulging the secrets Of
the shop They can be trusted better
than can the ambitious male employees
not to give away "points."
During the past two years nearly forty
six thousand Jews have landed in New
York, driven from their homes by re-
lentless religious and political prosecu-
tions. They come largely from Russia
and Roumania, in which countries they
have undergone the most bitter ruffer-
ings.
Prof. Proctor, in his new book on
"Chance and Luck" undertakes to
tell the chances of getting heads or
tails in tossing penny. If you toss an
hour, "head," swill not exceed stalls, :"
or "tails' ''heads" in a greater ratio
than 81 to 20. If you tsss for day the
inequality will not be greater that 101
to 100.
The one-hundred and thirty-fifth an
niversary of the formation Of the Hi
hernia Fire Engine Company of Phila-
delphia. was observed in that city Mon
day night by the Survivors Association
by banquet. In 1853 the company
imported fire engine from England
and located in house at Second and
Walnut streets. Just 100 years later
the company purchased steam engine,
being the first to introduce the improved
apparatus in Philadelphia.
Senator Fair, of Nevada, dnring his
six years term has not said enough in
the Senate Chamber to fill page of the
Congressional Record. Strangely enough
it is pointed out his succe ssor, ex-Sena-
tor Stewart, was during his former ser.
vice az legislator one of the most To-
quacious members the United States
Senate ever had.
There are in different parts of Russia
theatres for little Russians, Poles, Ger
mans, Swedes, Firms, Esthonians, Let's,
Georgians, Armenians, and Jews. To
these theatre for Tartans has Just been
added at Ti1is, in which both actors and
audience are Mussulmans, and to which
women are only admitted as rare ex-
| ception. The actors are either non. Mus.
sulmans, or the female role is represent
ted by men.